" Desire, unreined, leads to death" To took what extent to Tennessee Williams's plays lend support to such a proposition? Speaking to a reporter in 1963 Tennessee Williams said, " Death is my best theme, don't you think? The pain of dying is what worries me, not the act. After all, nobody gets out of life alive. "1 The themes of death and desire are central in the play A Streetcar Named to Desire. When the play was released in 1948 it caused a storm, its sexual content was controversial to say the least, but also it was, "virtually unique as a stage piece that is both personal and social and wholly a pro....

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